Carver Mead

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Carver Mead.

Carver Andress Mead (born May 1, 1934 in Bakersfield , California ) is an American electrical engineer and pioneer of modern microelectronics .

Life

He is the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of the California Institute of Technology , where he has taught for more than 40 years. He had previously studied electrical engineering here and obtained a Bachelor of Science (1956), Master of Science (1957) and doctorate (1960).

In 1980, Carver Mead and Lynn Conway published the widely read Introduction to VLSI systems . This book was very important for the breakthrough of the rapidly spreading microchip design revolution worldwide , which, detached from the microelectronic technology scene, established the microelectronic design methods as an independent science and to the emergence of the industry for tools (software) for electronics Design Automation Led.

1966 Carver Mead developed the first gallium arsenide - MESFET transistor, now a mainstay of the wireless electronics. He was the first to predict the lowest power loss limit for the size of transistors, introducing the concept of scalability on the way to submicron technology . He was the first to prophesy millions of transistors on a single microchip and developed the first methodology for developing very large, highly complex integrated circuits. He taught the first VLSI design course worldwide. He created the first silicon compiler .

He developed the methodology Collective Electrodynamics and is also a pioneer in the application of floating gate transistors for non-volatile storage in neural networks and other analog circuits. Together with Professor John Hopfield and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman , he studied how animal brains “calculate” (English compute ). This trio catalyzed three areas: neural networks, neuromorphic engineering and computer physics. Following Karl stone book lernmatrix Mead created the first silicon retina and microchips that can learn from experience and founded here the first company to apply this technology, such as Synaptics , and Foveon , Inc. for the development of image processing CMOS - sensors , for example for Digital cameras . His book Analog VLSI and Neural Systems from 1989 is also important here .

Carver Mead is credited with coining the term Moore's Law for Gordon Moore's 1965 forecast of the rate of growth in the number of transistors that fit on an integrated circuit .

In 2008 the company he founded, Foveon Inc., was sold to the Japanese company Sigma .

Company formation

Trivia

Carver Mead owns an extensive collection of high voltage glass insulators .

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sigma Corp. Acquires Foveon. Retrieved October 31, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Carver Meads Natural Inspiration. In: MIT Technology Review. September 1, 2005, accessed January 24, 2018 .
  3. ^ Synaptics: Company Overview. In: synaptics.com. Retrieved January 24, 2018 .
  4. ^ Martin Marshall, Larry Waller, and Howard Wolff: For optimal VLSI design efforts, Mead and Conway have fused device fabrication and system-level architecture . In: Electronics . October 20, 1981 ( online [accessed January 24, 2018]).
  5. ^ Carver Mead and Gordon Moore Among the 2009 Inductees into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame. caltech.edu, accessed January 24, 2018 .
  6. ^ Carver A. Mead: Frontiers of Knowledge, Information and Communication Technologies 4th edition. In: frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es. Fundación BBVA, accessed January 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Mead, carver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mead, Carver Andress (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist, electrical engineer, microelectronics engineer, and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Bakersfield , California